[WikiEN-l] Gosh darn it, those spammers^Wmarketers will show us what for

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 24 Jan 2007 at 11:24, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. Wikipedia is a give / take thing. you give your effort and in
> return you are rewarded with something which will help you in the
> search engine rankings with Google and possibly the other major
> engines.
> 
> http://www.sepguy.com/2007/01/23/5-reasons-wikipedia-is-doomed.html

That page is a real "How many errors can you find in this page?" 
brainteaser.  The author's attribution of WikiSeek as having been 
launched by Jimbo Wales (it's actually by a company named Searchme, 
Inc., unconnected with the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikia, or any other 
Jimbo Wales venture) is the most glaring error I noticed.

The site also refers to "wiki Nazis", thus triggering Godwin's Law.  
Then the author links to a personal anecdote of "Wikipedia hell" 
which turns out to simply be the fact that he once added a lengthy 
section on "Search Engine Prominence" to an article and had it 
removed and criticized by another editor on the grounds of the 
terminology being "not really standard".  Interesting definition of 
"hell" as being a place where not everybody always agrees with you 
all the time.  (It kind of reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode 
where hell turned out to be a place of eternal boredom where 
everything you try to do works perfectly with no conflict of any 
sort.)

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